Fields of Interest
Biography
Research
Selected Research
- Behlmer, George Singular Continuities:Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Print.
- Behlmer, George. Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Print.
- Behlmer, George. Child Abuse and Moral Reform in England. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982. Print.
Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations
Courses Taught
Spring 2017
Winter 2017
Winter 2016
Graduate Study Areas
Division: Europe--Medieval to Modern Times
Graduate study in the "Modern Britain" field will focus on the social, cultural, and political dimensions of British history from the advent of industrialization (circa 1760) through the Second World War. Within this broad time period, students will develop expertise in several historiographic themes. These themes, in turn, will be established through negotiation between the student and the field supervisor. Examples of themes negotiated with current and former graduate students include the following: the Victorian missionary movement; law and working-class culture; the authority of medicine; feminism and militancy; the policing of manners; and British responses to Irish revolutionary challenges.
Division: Comparative History (Comparative Colonialisms)*
This field will focus on the process by which Great Britain acquired and subsequently relinquished the world's most extensive colonial empire. The chronological focus here is from 1781 through the 1970s. Its territorial focus will be on British colonial policies in the Pacific and the Caribbean, as well as on the tortured colonial relationship with Ireland.
*Students may not offer a field in the Comparative History division as a first field.